The rendering of meaning for the moving image involves a semantic structure in which the camera, the person portrayed and the viewer make up the key edges on a given triad. This principle makes it possible –and desirable– to explore different strategies of interpretation that dislocate, reassign, adjust or simply overflow the semantic codes that stabilize the usual readings for the images that inhabit our environment, in order to reconfigure principles of identity and structural understandings that manage to affect the socio-political plane at a variety of levels.
This workshop is divided into two parts. In the first part, we will engage in collective exercises of categorization and hierarchization to treat visual materials so that they can acquire an archive value, in this case with entries that try to respond to a tactical sensitivity and to a multiplicity of perspectives of a specific social incidence.
In the second part, the participants will construct creative readings through strategic appropriations, which would end up being punctual comments on that reality that is constructed at the very moment in which its meaning is transmitted and decoded: it is the event of montage as the foundation of a collective construction of reality.
General public (18+ years), students of creative disciplines, anthropologists, sociologists, artists, experimental filmmakers and those interested in the generation and interpretation of contemporary video.
I. Analysis of the notion of archive.
II. Bases for the formation of a theory of knowledge based on the categorization of the image.
III. Artistic practices of archive intervention.
IV. Practices of political conformation of the image.
V. The editing of images as a principle of identity construction.
VI. Appropriation as a form of inscription.
VII. Dissemination as an exercise in the construction of meaning.
1st Day: Presentation. Discussion of an analytical framework. Work-flow strategy for the workshop. Discussion of examples.
2nd Day: Theoretical discussion of the main analytical categories. Discussion of examples.
3rd Day: Structuring of an archive. Discussion of practical searches and input. Examples and research program.
4th Day: Discussion of research and findings. Program for the production of a commented output.
5th Day: Discussion of research and findings. Edition process.
6th Day: Edition process. Final comments (and working plan for the refining of final results)
The result of the workshop will be a set of videos produced by the participants or a common project to be discussed with the group.
A screening of the results can be planned by the end of the process, according to the editing schedule of the participants.
Workshop: 32 hours, including viewing of films and audiovisual materialSpace requirements: projector + speakers, working space with internet.Workshop in English
Technical assistance, resource, and support will be provided through the workshop and the work process.
(born in Mexico City, lives and works in Berlin) is a documentary filmmaker, visual artist, and interdisciplinary researcher in the fields of migration studies, political philosophy, and visual studies. In his work he embraces notions of care as he collaborates with minorities, communities, and groups with disabilities towards the production of alternative narratives of self-affirmation and existential exploration. He has been a post-doc researcher in media politics in Paris and Berlin. His documentary Potentiae (2017) won a number of awards, including the Golden Frog for Best Cinematography at the Camerimage Festival, in Poland. He has also received twice the Prince Claus Fund (The Netherlands), the First Accésit Essay Prize from the University of Navarra (Spain), Semiotica’s Mouton d’Or Essay Award (Germany), and the National System for the Arts (Mexico). He has been a fellow researcher, among other institutions, at the Adrian Piper Foundation (Germany), the Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe (Croatia) and the Humboldt University, Käthe Hamburg Kolleg (Germany). More information at javiertoscano.net and collective-cinema.net.
www.javiertoscano.net
My name is Belal Kalash, I’m a Berlin based web and graphic designe/artist and a filmmaker.I started my education at the National School of Engineering in Haifa in Interactive Media Design (2008-2010), and later joined the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, in Based Screen Arts Studies (2016-2020). As a web and graphic designer and artist I explore a variety of media forms. on my films as well my future works, i take the autobiographical detials, blending them with a fictional space and time, trying to create an endless time and space, into experimental cinema and the virtual space, and other traditional forms of film and video.
www.belalkalash.net